I ran Piquet: Field of Battle games the last two Fridays, 1809 Austrians vs. French. The guys who played in the games were only vaguely familiar with Piquet, I think from the first edition Master Rules, both they seemed to like FoB.
I've been a Piquet fan for years, and I love FoB. Piquet plays nicely, but there are common criticisms: the units take a long time to stat up, you can have very uneven initiative runs, etc... FoB addresses these quite well, as well as dropping many of the rules from regular Piquet that I always wound up forgetting anyway! It quite nicely balances out play (no more uneven initiative runs) while retaining the uncertainty of Piquet. Plus, it is self-contained, no need to buy the Master Rules and fool around with expensive supplements for each period. I highly recommend these rules.
Posted by Andy at June 30, 2007 10:12 AM | TrackBack | Categories: Game ReportsWithout the pics, this means nothing to Disgruntled Wendigo. Puny man-thing, Raaargh!
Posted by: disgruntled wendigo on June 30, 2007 11:30 PMDude! Did you erase my comment from earlier?
Posted by: disgruntled wendigo on July 3, 2007 11:06 PMOops, sorry, back now. I have to delete a bunch of spam and overlooked it.
Anyway, I wanted to take pictures, but my camera's batteries were dead.
Posted by: Andy on July 4, 2007 1:01 PM